S IPSE 1002393 Abstract
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SKILLS IMPROVEMENT OF
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Eka Kartika Damayanti
International Program on Science Education
Indonesia University of Education
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Scientific inquiry skills are components that cannot be separated with scientific
method and inquiry learning. Since inquiry-based learning becoming popular,
scientific inquiry skills development obtain attentions from teachers and
curriculum developer. This research is aimed to give useful information about
scientific inquiry skills improvement of junior high school students. Quantitative
descriptive research method has been administered in school with KTSP
curriculum and in school with Cambridge IGCSE. As many as 244 students have
been participated as sample, which are chosen by random sampling technique. An
instrument which derived and developed from scientific inquiry skills by Wenning
(2007) has been validated and used to obtain data. By the assistance of ANATES
software, the result has been presented and analyzed with the result as follow: (1)
Generally, there was a fluctuated trend in scientific inquiry skills improvement of
junior high school students. The scores obtained are 48.5% for grade 7; 45.5% for
grade 8; 53.3% for grade 9. Yet, from 9 stages in scientific inquiry skills, some
skills underwent improvement pattern but most of them are fluctuated. (2) It is
found that samples from school with Cambridge IGCSE curriculum
implementation showed an improvement pattern (score 47.0% -- 50.5% -- 62.5%),
while school with KTSP implementation was not perform the same pattern (score
49.2% -- 42.5% -- 44.7%). This research is expected to be useful for teachers and
also to enrich references in the study of scientific inquiry skills to be developed in
future research.
Keywords: Cambridge science IGCSE, junior high school, KTSP, scientific
inquiry skills, improvement pattern
Eka Kartika Damayanti, 2014
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SKILLS IMPROVEMENT OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Eka Kartika Damayanti
International Program on Science Education
Indonesia University of Education
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Scientific inquiry skills are components that cannot be separated with scientific
method and inquiry learning. Since inquiry-based learning becoming popular,
scientific inquiry skills development obtain attentions from teachers and
curriculum developer. This research is aimed to give useful information about
scientific inquiry skills improvement of junior high school students. Quantitative
descriptive research method has been administered in school with KTSP
curriculum and in school with Cambridge IGCSE. As many as 244 students have
been participated as sample, which are chosen by random sampling technique. An
instrument which derived and developed from scientific inquiry skills by Wenning
(2007) has been validated and used to obtain data. By the assistance of ANATES
software, the result has been presented and analyzed with the result as follow: (1)
Generally, there was a fluctuated trend in scientific inquiry skills improvement of
junior high school students. The scores obtained are 48.5% for grade 7; 45.5% for
grade 8; 53.3% for grade 9. Yet, from 9 stages in scientific inquiry skills, some
skills underwent improvement pattern but most of them are fluctuated. (2) It is
found that samples from school with Cambridge IGCSE curriculum
implementation showed an improvement pattern (score 47.0% -- 50.5% -- 62.5%),
while school with KTSP implementation was not perform the same pattern (score
49.2% -- 42.5% -- 44.7%). This research is expected to be useful for teachers and
also to enrich references in the study of scientific inquiry skills to be developed in
future research.
Keywords: Cambridge science IGCSE, junior high school, KTSP, scientific
inquiry skills, improvement pattern
Eka Kartika Damayanti, 2014
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SKILLS IMPROVEMENT OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu